3 Jan
2010
3 Jan
'10
10:55 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh> wrote:
It's good to see that the source code is publicly
available but I'm
still concerned that Harrison customers might not be told that they have
access to it. I could find no mention whatsoever of source code on
their website. According to the GPL 2, they must necessarily provide
along with their binaries, either the source code itself or a written
offer to provide the source code. Is this happening?
Again, the concern here is that there may be Harrison customers who are
not being made aware that they have access to the source code for the
software they're buying.
The software does not differ from Ardour in any way that is related to
"GPL compliance". It prints the same messages, and is covered by same
license. Nobody who downloads Ardour from http://ardour.org/download
will see any extra indication of their rights under the GPL over those
seen by a Mixbus customer, and neither will anyone who obtains Ardour
from their Linux distribution. If you're going to get upset by Mixbus,
then lets please start first with what happens when someone downloads
Ardour from a Ubuntu repository.
I own the copyright to Ardour. I have already verified